Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 8:09pm (EST-3) 

URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates" Reply=A0to:
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Subject: URGENT - "Write to Embassies & Consulates"

**ALSO URGENT**
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PLEASE WRITE YOUR CLOSEST KOREAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE
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"TELL THEM TO STOP THE LIES"
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Dear friends of Korean animals,
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Please also write to your nearest Korean Embassy or Consulate.=A0 
Sample letters listed below and addresses at the end of this letter.
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Thank you,
Kyenan Kum
IAKA Founder
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Remember: Embassy & Consulate Addresses are at the end of this letter.

SAMPLE LETTERS 

Sample Letters to Embassies=A0or Consulates:  

UK / World Size (A4 - MS Word Doc.)

US Size (8.5 x 11- MS Word Doc.) 

Sample letter to Embassy or Consulate:

Dear Embassy/Consulate,

The Korean Government claims their new amendment focuses on
strengthening the protection of animals by numerous measures. However,
the 1991 Animal Protection Law already bans cruelty to all animals and
yet the Korean Government has simply failed to enforce the law. 

The new Amendment does strengthen some penalties against offenders and
introduces some regulations for the pet industry, but does nothing to
improve efforts to stop the illegal dog and cat meat trade - killing
millions of dogs and cats each year.

Worse, the definition of pet animals introduced in the Amendment is a
clever way of giving legitimacy to the dog and cat meat trade. If the
law only recognizes a dog or a cat as a pet animal when their owner's
intention is to raise them for companionship, a dog or a cat can also be
treated as food or medicine according to their owner's intention. 

This is especially a big problem when the Korean Government secretly
eliminated dog stew from its list of disgusting f ood in the Food
Sanitation Law of 1984 that could not be sold legally. 

What the Korean Government should concede and openly acknowledge is that
the dog and cat meat trade thrives on lies and greed. 

Until the millions of dogs and cats in the markets are included in the
definition of pet animals, making no distinction between them, this
Amendment causes far more harm than good for Korean animals. 

The Korean Government's strategy to defend dog meat as "our food
culture" is a blatant revision of history that damages Korea's image
abroad. 

Dogs were never a dietary tradition in Korea's long history; even during
desperate times they were only the vice of older men seeking to enhance
their sexual potency. 

Cats have only been consumed in tonics since the 1980s. Greed, loss of
wild life, and fraudulent health benefits brought them to market. 

This amendment tells us that many more animals will continue to be
killed for fraudulent health foods like dog-stew-viagra and
cat-juice-tonic, whose alleged benefits depend on torture, steroids, and
narcotics. 

The Korean Government's deceitful diplomatic solution questions your
level of commitment to responsible and just animal protection laws, as
well for decent consumer fraud and health protection.

The Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS), International Aid for Korean
Animals (IAKA), and caring Koreans will win their campaign, because the
dog and cat meat trade is already illegal and not a part of Korean
tradition or culture - most Koreans do not eat them and millions prefer
to have them as pets. 

They will only lose if secrecy, nationalist lies, and corruption
prevail. The truth and law is on their side. 

Please support KAPS/IAKA by urging the Government to finally take
responsibility for the millions of dogs and cats illegally slaughtered
and consumed each year in the markets. 

Korea can not take pride in defending the indefensible false-tradition
of dog-eating, while ignoring the very courageous and purely homegrown
Korean Animal Protection Society that truly defends Korea's real culture
and traditions by doing the right thing for their people and their
animals. 

There is no honor in choosing a LIE as a symbol of Korean culture to
defend against international criticism, and all for the benefit of a
greedy few butchers and consumers, who have already wiped out much of
Korea's wildlife.

 Please stand up for Korea by defending worthwhile traditions and values
based on truth and justice instead. The only way for the Korean
Government to rid itself of this shameful international reputation is to
stand behind Korea's own caring people and close down the dog and cat
markets on their behalf, not the international communities. 

The Korean Government must begin to responsibly educate Koreans about
the myths of dog and cat meat-products and promptly enforce adequate
laws protecting all dogs and cats from abuse and slaughter, as well as
finding these butchers alternative sources of income. 

Until then, we will only support amendments that strengthen protections
so that no dog and cat is left behind in the markets to be slaughtered
and consumed for a dangerous and fraudulent health food market. 

Please protect Korea's animals and consumers from this illegal industry.
Kindest regards,

Name:
Address:

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ADDRESSES:

Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's World Map of Consulates
and Embassies
http://www.mofat.go.kr/mission/missions_map_en.mof

Korean Embasies and Consulates in US
http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/koreaus/consulates/eng_info.cfm

Brief List of Korean Embassies and Consulates
Embassy of The Republic of Korea in U.S.
2320 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008, Tel: (202) 939-5600,
Fax: (202) 387-0413, 
http://www.koreaembassyusa.org/=A0
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Embassy of The Republic of Korea in London, United Kingdom
Ambassador : Lee Tae-sik,=A060 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AJ, United
Kingdom, Tel. =A0: 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5500,=A0=A0=A0=A0
Fax : 44 - (0)20 - 7227-5503,=A0
mailto:koreanembinuk@mofat.go.kr 
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Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Darussalam, Brunei - 
No 17, Simpang 212-28, Kg. Rimba, Jalan Kg. Rimba, Brunei. BE3119. 
P.O.Box 2169, Bandar Seri Begawan BS8674, Brunei.=A0 
Tel: 673 - 2426038, 2426039, 2426040.=A0 
Fax: 673- 2426041.=A0 
mailto: koreaemb@brunet.bn 

General Consulate of The Republic of Korea in Shanghai, China - 
4th Floor Shanghai Int'l Trade Center, 2200 Yan An Road (W), 
Shanghai, China.=A0 
Tel: (86-21) 6219 - 6417 20.=A0 
Fax: (86-21) 6219 - 6918. 
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Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Jakarta, Indonesia - 
Jl. Gend. Gatot Subroto 57, 
Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.=A0 
Tel: (62-21) 520 - 1915.=A0 
Fax: (62-21) 525 - 4159. 

Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Dublin, Ireland - 
15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, 
Dublin 4, Ireland.=A0 
Tel: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109. Fax: (+353-1) - 660 -
8716. 
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Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Rome, Italy - 
Via Barnaba Oriani 30, 00197 
Rome, Italy.=A0 
Tel: (39) 06 - 808 - 8769, 8820/1, 8875, 8912.=A0 Fax: (39) 06 - 8068 -
7794. 

Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Tokyo, Japan - 
1-2-5, Minami Azabu, 
Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan ( 106-8577).=A0 
Tel: (81-3) 3452 - 7611/9.=A0 
Fax: (81-3) 5232 - 6911. 
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Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Wellington, New Zealand -
11th Floor ASB Bank Tower, 
2 Hunter Street, 
Wellington, New Zealand. 

OR

PO BOX 11-143, 
Manners Street, Wellington, 
New Zealand.=A0 
Tel: (64-4) 473 - 9073 /4.=A0 
Fax: (64-4) 472 - 3865.=A0 
mailto:koreaemb@worldnet.co.nz=A0

Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Islamabad, Pakistan - 
Block 13, St.29, 
Diplomatic Enclave II, G-5/4, 
Islamabad, Pakistan. 
G.P.O. Box 1087.=A0 
Tel: (92-51) 227 - 9380/2, 227 - 9395/7.=A0 
Fax: (92-51) 227 - 9391. 
mailto:koremb1@comsats.net.pk 

Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Taipei, Taiwan - 
Rm 1506, No.333, Sec.1, Kee-Lung Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. 
Tel: (886-2) 2758 - 8320/5.=A0 
Fax: (886-2) 2757 - 7006. 

Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Bangkok, Thailand - 
23 Thiam-Ruammit Road, 
Ratchadapisek, 
Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10320.=A0 
Tel:=A0 2477537 - 41.=A0 
Fax: 2477535.=A0 
mailto:korembas@kormail.net=A0
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Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Ankara, Turkey - 
Alacam Sokak No.5, 
Cinnah Caddesi, Cankaya, 
Ankara 06690, Turkey.=A0 
Tel: +90 - 312 - 468 - 4821/22/23, 467 - 7449, 427 - 1743.=A0 
Fax: +90 - 312 - 468 - 2279.=A0=A0 
mailto:turkey@mofat.go.kr 
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Embassy of The Republic of Korea in Hanoi, Vietnam - 
4 th Fl., Dae Ha Business Center, 
Kim Ma Street, 
Hanoi, Vietnam.=A0 
Tel: (84-4) 831 - 5111/6.=A0
Fax: (84-4) 831 - 5117.=A0 
mailto: korembviet@mofat.go.kr

You can also write personal letters urging the Korean Government to: 

Introduce new clearly-enforceable laws 
Ban slaughter, abuse, and consumption of ALL DOGS & CATS once and for
all 
Define ALL DOGS & CATS as "PET ANIMALS"

Enforce existing laws that prohibit the abuse and consumption of dogs
and cats. 
Please send Korean Government protest letters to: 

President Roh, Moo-Hyun
Blue House
1 Sejong-Ro, Jongno-gu
Seoul
South Korea, 110-050
malto:webmaster@president.go.kr=A0

mailto:webmaster@korea.net

Minister Huh Sang-Man 
The Ministry of Agriculture
1 Jungang-dong, Gwacheon
Gyeonggi Prov.
South Korea, 427-760
-or-
mailto:webmaster@maf.go.kr=A0

Rita Fazio, 
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Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS) 
International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA)
http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm
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Don't turn your back upon their pain, because it's hard to see.They have
no other place to turn, They've only you and me.

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PS:  Excellent vector for transpecies virii, injecting or injesting
narcotics mixed with fresh or rotten  dog and cat blood or reproductive
organs or nervous tissue.-- especially undourgournd and unregulated or
medically unmonitored such. How this will affect tourism to  and exports
from korea is a difficult question indeed.
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